Article source: LOCALARCHITECTURE 

Elegant and iconic, the new headquarters of the FIM (International Motorcycling Federation) had to wait ten years before taking shape on a site in the outskirts of Geneva where road and railway meet.

It was in 2006 that LOCALARCHITECTURE and Bureau d’Architecture Danilo Mondada won the competition (conducted by the MEP – Mandat d’Études Parallèles – parallel development selection process) for the extension of the International Motorcycling Federation’s main headquarters in Mies in the canton of Vaud. Following a change of administration at the FIM the project was abandoned. A new selection procedure with invited architects was launched in 2013, with a modified functional programme. At this point the mandate was awarded to LOCALARCHITECTURE.

Image Courtesy © MatthieuGafsou

• Architects: LOCALARCHITECTURE
• Project: The new FIM Headquarters
• Location: Route de Suisse 11, CH-1295 Mies (VD), Switzerland
• Photography: MatthieuGafsou and JoelTettamanti
  
• Client: FIM – Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (International Motorcycling Federation)
• Construction management: Thinka Architecture studio, Onex
• Civil engineering: INGENI, Ingénierie Structurale, Carouge
• Heating/Ventilation/Plumbing/Electricity engineers: Amstein Walthert, Geneva
• Acoustical engineering: Architecture & Acoustique SA, Geneva
• Lighting: Etienne Gillabert, Paris

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